Last Days (2014)
- Directed by
- Kathryn Bigelow
- Genre
- documentary film
- Country
- United States
- Runtime
- 4 min
- Rating
- 7.6 of 10 from 10 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
This short documentary connects the illegal ivory trade to terrorist funding. It uses footage from a shopping mall attack to argue that poaching supports militant groups. The film focuses on the decline of African elephant populations.
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What happens
Last Days is a 2014 American animated short documentary film about the decline of African elephant populations and the illegal ivory trade. It was directed by Kathryn Bigelow and written by Scott Z. Burns. Featured in the film is footage of the 2013 Westgate shopping mall attack in Nairobi, Kenya, which has been attributed to the militant organization Al-Shabaab. The film advances the claim that terrorist networks derive much of their income from poached ivory. These claims, which were similar to ones made by several public officials including former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, UK Foreign Secretary William Hague, and Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta, were based on a 2013 report by the environmental nonprofit Elephant Action League (EAL). However, a report published jointly by Interpol and the United Nations Environment Programme described EAL's findings as "highly unreliable". According to the report, Al-Shabaab's primary income comes from the trade in charcoal, a significant source of deforestation. The world premiere of Last Days was held at the New York Film Festival on September 27, 2014. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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Virunga (2014)- More like this film, on a shelf you can walk up to.It's the lit case on the top shelf.